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Are these pretty weeds I pampered all year?

Or am I lucky enought to get a flower?

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dodge

don't you hate that.. I got 2 I've been pampering all year and no flowers

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they are pretty though.

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I like the scalloped one..

and they look so healthy

the second one should give you lots of small pink aster-like flowers in spring...i pampered some last year (wasn't sure if they were weeds then) and got flowers this year

Yuk

WIldasters I hate.. We have blue an pink..
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I remember you asking about one.

b

Dodge, I think the second one is Oenothera biennis. This is a biennial so you should get a tall, yellow bloom next year.

Thanks Netty

Now I have to go look to see if I pulled it ?????

I am wild an wooly.

b

Well, if you block them off with some stones, they won't be able to spread into anything else, so I don't see the harm in growing them.

I've seen both those 'weeds' and they are nice looking plants.

Know what? weeds . . . weeds are plants that are growing where you don't want them to grow.

That's what gardening's all about - a science in itself.

Look carefully at what you pluck as weeds . . . sometimes they turn out to be plants that have 'self-propigated', by way of wind, birds, the little paws of squirrels (the little buggers!), or maybe your own cat has been picking them up on his/her feet and bringing the seeds home.

It's good to get a good 'wildflower' guide, or something online to i. d. your weeds before you throw them out.

Even dandelions, as everyone knows, have SOME use - salads, wine, etc.

There's the ugly thorny ones - the obvious weeds - those you can't miss.

A lot of the plants I have going on our lot (apartment building) were cultivated from 'weeding'. They laughed at me when they saw some of the things I was plucking, then transferring to spots of their own - but they quit laughing when they saw the nice plants that came of them.